Ripp Quotes & Sayings

I have had my different husbands, my families. I am fond of them all and I visit them all. But deep inside me there is the feeling that I belong to show business. — Ingrid Bergman

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature. — James Joyce

I was free from fear for the first time ever while making the music. Fear's job is to distract us from the truth. There's no fear on my record. — Andrew Ripp

When you are in a jackal environment, never give them the power to submit or rebel. We want to teach this to children very early: Never lose track that you are always free to choose. Don't allow institutions to determine what you do. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present. — Loren Eiseley

I think it just takes time in order to come to a place where your comfortable being who God made you to be. — Andrew Ripp

Being an opener is easy because fans aren't expecting anything. However, when you go up there and blow their minds and they flip out that is such an unbelievable feeling, so you want to make sure you bring your everything, every single night to ensure that happens. — Andrew Ripp

The office of a bishop was a room, at the beginning, that no man coveted; and that no man durst take upon him, save he only which loved Christ better than his own life. For as Christ saith, that no man might be his disciple, except that he were ready to forsake life and all; even so might that officer be sure that it would cost him his life at one time or another, for bearing record unto the truth. — William Tyndale

I'm in a place where the audience doesn't have control over my love for the music. In the past I was waiting on the reaction of the fans to tell me whether or not I had a great record based on how they'd respond. — Andrew Ripp

Does he know you're with me? Does he know about me? Does he know we fuck each other in our dreams every night?
~ Ripp Collins — Yvonne Nicolas

Long before Eichmann's capture, Auerbach had conducted research on Operation 1005, the large-scale secret campaign to destroy evidence of the Final Solution by digging up the mass graves, pulverizing the bodies in specially adapted cement-mixer apparatuses, and erasing all traces of the atrocities. She also found two people who had participated as slave laborers in this effort.

-- The Eichmann Trial, page 53 — Deborah E. Lipstadt

Pathology can indeed cause experiences of the Kingdom of God, but not all God experiences are caused by pathology. — Abhijit Naskar

I'm trying my best to sound like me rather than trying my best to write hits or praying to God that people respond. I've arrived in a very healthy place and it feels great! — Andrew Ripp

A website needs to not just exist, it needs to perform. — Trent Dyrsmid

You can unlock spiritual things only from within. — Richard Rohr

I'm grateful to have gone through so many different seasons of life because without those years of searching, I'd still have no idea who I am and what Andrew Ripp really has to say. — Andrew Ripp

Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good songs to great songs. — Andrew Ripp

"Animal" is my favorite song because it's a reminder for me every night when I step on to stage that I am no longer a slave to fear. It's something I need to be reminded of constantly because fear is relentless. It will always continue to swing at me and this song is my armor and defense. It's my anthem in a sense to say fear will not hinder me anymore. — Andrew Ripp

Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive. — Mason Cooley